Cantaloupe Curls with Spiced Wine

• 1 cup dry red wine
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon pink peppercorns (optional), crushed
• 2 ripe cantaloupes, chilled

1. Simmer all ingredients except cantaloupes in a 1-quart heavy saucepan until reduced to about 1/4 cup, 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Remove from heat and cool in saucepan set in a bowl of ice and cold water.
3. Discard bay leaf.
4. Halve each cantaloupe and discard seeds.
5. Scoop out curls from melon halves with an ice cream scoop (not one with a lever), then divide curls among 4 bowls along with any juices.
6. Just before serving, drizzle each serving with about 1 tablespoon cooled spiced wine.

red wine, sugar, turkish, mustard seeds, pink, cantaloupes

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cantaloupe-curls-with-spiced-wine-109759 (may not work)